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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"d S. VI. 148., Oct. 30. '58. 



though this day has been appropriated by the 

 Church expressly to commemorate the resurrec- 

 tion of the Son of God, there is no reason to be- 

 lieve that Son-day was ever used to express dies 

 filii or dies dominiat, but dies solis. Chaucer uses 

 the Saxon word sonne for " the sun," and sonnish 

 for "like the sun" (Tyrwhilt's Glossary') : — 



" With pitous herte liis plaint hatli be begonne 

 Unto the goddes, and first unto the Sonne 

 He said, ' Apollo,' " &c. The Frankeleine's Tak. 



Cranmer (15-39), in the Gospels, writes sonne, in 

 the Acts, swine, excepting only xxvi. 13. ; Wiclif 

 (1380) and the Geneva version (15-37) ■vjTiiQsunne. 



T. J. BncKTON. 

 Lichfield. 



Epitaph. — Under this head, Mr. Johtj Scribe 

 asks (P' S. xi. 190.), if any one can "spot" these 

 lines ? — 



"Whether he lives, or whether he dies, 

 Nobody laughs, and nobody cries ; 

 Where he's gone, and how he fares. 

 Nobody knows and nobody cares." 



Is Mh. Scribe assured that it is extant any- 

 where as an epitaph ? If so, I cannot help him. 

 I am inclined to think, however, that they are but 

 another version of the following : — 



" And as fretful antiquity cannot be mended, 

 The lonely life of the Bachelor's ended. 

 Nobody mourns him, and nobody sighs, 

 Nobod}' misses hini — nobody cries, 

 For nobody grieves when the Bachelor dies." 



These lines form the conclusion of an amusing 

 description of "Old Bachelors." I know not their 

 author. I cut them from a newspaper devoted 

 to the lowest of Holywell Street literature, which 

 I am glad to believe to have been as short-lived 

 as worthless. The whole piece is, I think, a parody 

 of one that amused me in my juvenile days de- 

 scriptive of " How the Water came down at Lo- 

 dore," an effusion, I believe, of Southey. 



Tee-Bee. 



Egyptian Dahlia (2"'' S. vi. 245.) — The para- 

 graph from The Illustrated News of 18 Nov. 1848, 

 appears to be entirely without foundation ; no 

 such statement, as to the blooming of a dahlia 

 from a root 2000 years old, being in Lord Lind- 

 say's Travels. {Letters on Egypt, Sj'C, 4tli edit. 

 1847). The dahlia is, indeed, not an Asiatic or 

 African, but a Mexican plant. Besides, it ij by 

 no means certain that any seed of that age has re- 

 tained its vitality and powers of reproduction. 

 Sir J. G. Wilkinson, in his popular account of 

 ancient Egypt (ii. 6. 39.), mentions the only in- 

 stance of a similar report as to wheat in the fol- 

 lowing terms : " This is the kind which has been 

 lately grown in England, and which is said to 

 have been raised from grain found in the tombs 



of Thebes." 

 Lichfield. 



T. J. BCCKTON. 



Glastonbury and Wells Concord of 1327 (2°* S. 

 vi. 172.) — It is not improbable that the person 

 who transcribed and translated the Concord from 

 the original Latin, might have performed his task 

 somewhat unskilfully. On referring to my copy 

 of the Concord, and reading it with more care, I 

 see that the words alluded to by Mr. Carringtox 

 are exactly those he suggests, " Comon and Hog- 

 sties," which will make the subject clearer. The 

 alder-tree grows in the locality referred to in the 

 Concord now ; and I have reason for believing 

 that in ancient times, before the moors were 

 drained and inclosed, it was even more frequently 

 found than now. I have no means of referring to 

 the original document, nor do I know where it 

 is ; but that it was in existence when the transla- 

 tion was made, I have no doubt. Ina. 

 Wells, Somerset. 



Nathan Chytratus (2"* S. vi. 297.) — A modern 

 Latin poet, born at Menzlngen, in Germany, 

 March 15, 1543, died at Bremen Feb. 25, 1598. 

 He studied at Rostock, under the direction of his 

 father, then at Tubingen, and in 1594 was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Latin at Rostock. The fol- 

 lowing year he visited France, England, and Italy. 

 On his return he became Professor of Poetry. In 

 1598 he went to Bremen to fill the office of 

 Rector of the Gymnasium of that city, where he 

 died. 



The above is translated from the account given 

 in the Nouvelle Biographie Generals, 'AAieiJy. 



Hock, or Roche, of Closworth, Co. Somerset (2"'^ 

 S. vi. 167 ) — Although I cannot now (for want of 

 time) assist R. C. AV. to any great extent, I will 

 give him a few Notes which occur to me. The 

 name of Roche is an old one here : — John Roche 

 was Mayor of Wells a. d. 1424, 1431, and 1434. 

 Richard Rocke (probably the person referred to 

 by R. C. W.) was sworn into the office of Town 

 Clerk of Wells Sept. 19, 1688. The name of 

 John Rocke occurs in a list of contributors to a 

 loan to King Charles a. d. 1643. 



An old and respectable branch of the family of 

 Rocke has been settled at Glastonbury for many 

 years past. Mr. James John Rocke is a highly 

 respectable solicitor 'practising there at this time. 

 This family, I believe, came originally from But- 

 leigh, four miles from Glastonbury, and ten from 

 Wells. John Rocke was Rector of Butleigh for 

 many years, and I think one of the same name 

 before him. 



The name oiStandish was also once fiimiliar here. 

 I have often observed the name in perusing our 

 corporate records. The Rev. Francis Standish, 

 Minor Canon and Priest Vicar of the cathedral, was 

 appointed Stipendiary Priest and Assistant to the 

 Vicar of St. Cuthbert in Wells, under a charter 

 of Queen Mary, March 25, 1643. 



The name of Peurce was also formerly well- 



